Personal banking assistant vs banker

The differences between personal banking assistants and bankers can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. While it typically takes 6-12 months to become a personal banking assistant, becoming a banker takes usually requires 2-4 years. Additionally, a banker has an average salary of $44,463, which is higher than the $36,843 average annual salary of a personal banking assistant.

The top three skills for a personal banking assistant include quality customer service, branch management and loan payments. The most important skills for a banker are taking care, financial services, and securities.

Personal banking assistant vs banker overview

	Personal Banking Assistant	Banker
Yearly salary	$36,843	$44,463
Hourly rate	$17.71	$21.38
Growth rate	-3%	10%
Number of jobs	19,629	29,725
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 56%	Bachelor's Degree, 56%
Average age	41	43
Years of experience	12	4

Personal banking assistant vs banker salary

Personal banking assistants and bankers have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Personal Banking Assistant	Banker
Average salary	$36,843	$44,463
Salary range	Between $27,000 And $49,000	Between $20,000 And $97,000
Highest paying City	-	New York, NY
Highest paying state	-	New York
Best paying company	-	Citi
Best paying industry	-	Finance

Differences between personal banking assistant and banker education

There are a few differences between a personal banking assistant and a banker in terms of educational background:

	Personal Banking Assistant	Banker
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 56%	Bachelor's Degree, 56%
Most common major	Business	Business
Most common college	-	University of Pennsylvania

Personal banking assistant vs banker demographics

Here are the differences between personal banking assistants' and bankers' demographics:

	Personal Banking Assistant	Banker
Average age	41	43
Gender ratio	Male, 26.7% Female, 73.3%	Male, 46.3% Female, 53.7%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 10.1% Unknown, 2.9% Hispanic or Latino, 21.5% Asian, 9.3% White, 55.4% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.8%	Black or African American, 5.5% Unknown, 4.1% Hispanic or Latino, 11.4% Asian, 12.3% White, 66.5% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.2%
LGBT Percentage	11%	6%

Differences between personal banking assistant and banker duties and responsibilities

Personal banking assistant example responsibilities.

Develop and maintain relationships with business partners to increase cross-sell opportunities and achieve sales goals.
Maintain and collect fees for safe deposit boxes and perform daily transaction/currency functions for area ATM's.
Reconcile ATM and audit non-monetary documents.
Comply with federal and international compliance regulations and procedures, along with completion of NMLS origination licensing.
Direct, develop and coordinate origination, structuring and administration of all credit, capital markets and syndicate credit/agency activities.

Banker example responsibilities.

Manage a mortgage, banking and securities base lending pipeline for one of the top lending branches in the firm.
Manage a variety of internal initiatives including merchandising, cross-selling, customer retention programs and promotional campaigns.
Earn numerous reward certificates for level of sales and customer service through QA.
Qualify potential members for membership by opening checking accounts, savings accounts, IRAs, CDs, and processing loan applications.
Follow appropriate VL guidelines to ensure compliance with QA and banking regulations.
Pass series 6 , 63 and insurance exams as registered member of FINRA.

Personal banking assistant vs banker skills

Common personal banking assistant skills

Quality Customer Service, 17%
Branch Management, 10%
Loan Payments, 6%
Bank Products, 6%
Loan Applications, 5%
Customer Relationships, 4%

Common banker skills

Taking Care, 15%
Financial Services, 10%
Securities, 6%
Bank Products, 5%
NMLS, 5%
Upselling, 4%